Analysis of Resignation

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Undesirable yet inevitable the time comes.
When that which has been done,
Runs out if approval and acceptance.

A resignation to admit,
Changes can not be prevented.
Like the past, present and future,
Has a purpose to introduce.
To eventually produce,
A movement to find useless...
Those standards and routines.
Gone to once represent a way of life.

Too many living in these fast paced days.
Refuse to let go,
Of their old ways fading.
Finding themselves,
In the midst of conflicts to defend...
Habits to have them.
While protesting against,
A future that has begun.
Leaving them behind.
With minds incapable to accept and adapt,
To that which is done.

Those yesterdays have had their place.
And the present to live it,
Is not permanently to stay.
Nor is the future guaranteed to anyone,
To remain that way unchanged.
Regardless who declares,
A power is theirs to do as they wish!
They too will face being replaced.
Since the only thing any of us,
Is blessed to have to say is ours is life.
And the experience to live it,
On a temporary basis.
As an invitation to visit.
Not to permanently sit as if...
That time for us will never come,
To resign to find...
We have been forced to move on!

'The time has come
For me to acknowledge,
The past to have lived it,
Makes me no exception to expect...
What I had done to do,
Today is not accepted!'

'Your acknowledgement is appreciated.
Now...
How much time do you need,
For your mind to sit and marinate in it?'

'I...
Have made mistakes.
And as a child living many decades ago...
I...'

'Unneeded are repeated explanations.
Or survivor stories of your life to have had.
Just an answer to the question.


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Poetic Form
Metre 0100101000011 111111 1110100010 0010101 10111010 10110010 1010101 10100001 0101110 110001 111010111 1101001111 01111 111110 1001 001101101 10111 101001 0101101 10101 110100101001 11111 1101111 0010111 11100011 1101001110 1011101 010101 0101111111 1111101 101011011 11111111011 000100111 1010010 11010110 111000111 11111101 10111 1111111 0111 111010 011111 111010101 111111 0111010 1010010100 1 111111 1111101001 1 1101 010110100101 1 0101010010 101010111111 11101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,588
Words 299
Sentences 37
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 8, 11, 17, 6, 4, 4, 3
Lines Amount 56
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 158
Words per stanza (avg) 37
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Submitted by lpahtillah on August 10, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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